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Flash Flood — Chicot, AR

Mar 11, 2016

As high pressure over the East Coast refused to move, a storm system approached the ArkLaMiss from the west and stalled just to the west of the region on March 7th. While warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico filtered north and encompassed the region, a series of potent upper level disturbances began lifting northeast across the Lower Mississippi River Valley. This set the stage for multiple rounds of torrential rains that fell almost continuously across the ArkLaMiss from March 8th through Mar

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 626121). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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